Derek Caswell

Developer extraordinaire who loves all things Laravel and Ballroom Dance.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@OtherworldJamie Oh I definitely agree that architecture knowledge is still extremely important. What I would do is utilize it as a learning tool to get it explained in different ways until I understood it. That won't always work but I've learned a fair amount that way in the last few months.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@adamwathan @taylorotwell WOW!!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@OtherworldJamie There are new variations of this now. My daughter has one that we play with occasionally.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@laravelphp @joedixon @dgarbs51_ I was registered for this and then a bunch of stuff came up at work while it was going on. Are you going to post a recording of it?

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@OtherworldJamie @GHHILL1911 That is so true @OtherworldJamie! There are so many things I miss about Oregon but the crap they're doing in Salem prevents me even thinking about moving back.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@OtherworldJamie They just need to get the greedy rich people to pay for it all. They're so rich, they can just pay for everything!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@nicoritschel @aarondfrancis It's not free if you're using their AI tools.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@wendell_adriel @taylorotwell Nice! Glad to hear that experience was improved on!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@laracasts Hey just wanted to let you know that there's an issue with the video on https://t.co/ggcsPxLGqE.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@PovilasKorop I think the idea is that once the component gets big enough that it becomes an issue, you can convert it to the multi file option.

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI.

When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this.

When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term.

Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while.

As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@espn Stop trying to force people onto your crappy streaming service and make a deal with @YouTubeTV already! This is ridiculous!!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@YouTubeTV You need to figure out this crap with Disney THIS week or you're going to lose a lot of subscribers!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@2Sticks1Nation @cameronmoll @BednarDavidA I have those same shoes and love them!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@laracasts @mattstauffer @TightenCo I'm hoping to become a dev team lead very soon, so I am very much looking forward to this!

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@SynchroM @LiamHammett @laravelphp If you're doing that in the config file, that's not going to help with the PHPStan issue because it doesn't know that the config you're pulling has been casted.

[Derek Caswell @DancingTechGeek]

@LaravelLivewire So sorry I'm going to miss this but my son is due on the 29th so my wife would kill me! 😁 If at all possible please record the talks to post on YouTube.